differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labor supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the well-being of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

sufficient conditions for the existence of competitive equilibria with endogenous household formation and public choice …

with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual … preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption externalities. Household decisions adhere to the collective rationality …

time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the … male. (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …

information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total …

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage …

African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto … inefficiency of a household resource allocation does not however refute the hypothesis that it chooses this resource allocation as … if it maximises some form of household welfare function possessing the Pareto property. To refute that hypothesis it is …